This article, Bolstering a STEM pipeline in Ohio, is centered on a new curriculum that emphasizes math and science education. Ohio has seen a dramatic increase for jobs in the sciences, while also experiencing an economic drop. The solution for improving the economy and also the chances of today’s students in their careers is to educate more heavily in the math and science areas of secondary school.
This STEM curriculum was implemented in Ohio school systems by being passed through legislature. The new system, or the “Ohio Core” has many specific levels of achievement that students are expected to meet. These are met through increasing their math unites from three to four (all four years of high school), centering sciences around inquiry based labs, incorporating financial elements into math and literature, providing college prep services in the schools and expanding elective choices to include fire arts and foreign languages.
STEM should not be seen as heavily based in the math and science areas of school, however, since these skills will ultimately be used to help build students who are quick problem solvers. By creating these problem solving skills through science and math classes, the state of Ohio believes that these students can continue on to use the skills in real life situations. STEM also focuses on the use of technology; no matter the level available, to help students gain experience using tools besides books. STEM Fellows test all of these methods in order to monitor the successes and failures of the program.
Overall, the STEM system seems to be one that has proven successful, as shown in the article. I believe that the idea of inquiry-based structure in the classroom will help develop problem-solving skills, however I do not completely understand how the STEM system will implement these changes. There are a lot of reformation ideas about the education system being discussed in the media, with STEM being one of them. The combination of technology and student based skills (both curriculum based and ones that include life skills) will ideally help the students later on in their career paths. In conclusion, the STEM system has a carefully planned framework in order to help students in Ohio succeed and I am interested to see how this study pans out over time.
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This article, Bolstering a STEM pipeline in Ohio, is centered on a new curriculum that emphasizes math and science education. Ohio has seen a dramatic increase for jobs in the sciences, while also experiencing an economic drop. The solution for improving the economy and also the chances of today’s students in their careers is to educate more heavily in the math and science areas of secondary school.
This STEM curriculum was implemented in Ohio school systems by being passed through legislature. The new system, or the “Ohio Core” has many specific levels of achievement that students are expected to meet. These are met through increasing their math unites from three to four (all four years of high school), centering sciences around inquiry based labs, incorporating financial elements into math and literature, providing college prep services in the schools and expanding elective choices to include fire arts and foreign languages.
STEM should not be seen as heavily based in the math and science areas of school, however, since these skills will ultimately be used to help build students who are quick problem solvers. By creating these problem solving skills through science and math classes, the state of Ohio believes that these students can continue on to use the skills in real life situations. STEM also focuses on the use of technology; no matter the level available, to help students gain experience using tools besides books. STEM Fellows test all of these methods in order to monitor the successes and failures of the program.
Overall, the STEM system seems to be one that has proven successful, as shown in the article. I believe that the idea of inquiry-based structure in the classroom will help develop problem-solving skills, however I do not completely understand how the STEM system will implement these changes. There are a lot of reformation ideas about the education system being discussed in the media, with STEM being one of them. The combination of technology and student based skills (both curriculum based and ones that include life skills) will ideally help the students later on in their career paths. In conclusion, the STEM system has a carefully planned framework in order to help students in Ohio succeed and I am interested to see how this study pans out over time.